Clinical Approach:

A thorough psychiatric evaluation and care is usually multidimensional. As a student of Professors Paul McHugh and Phillip Slavney at Johns Hopkins University, I have learned to consider disease, temperament, behavior, and life story to be important factors in psychiatric evaluation and treatment.

The consistency or reliability of various theories on mental health are valuable; yet, I doubt the full validity of any single theory in practice and prefer a biopsychosocial or eclectic approach.

While I appreciate an old tradition of "good words, thoughts, and deeds", I utilize contemporary methods to understand and treat my patients' difficulties with their feeling, thinking, and behavior.

Reasons for referral to us:

• Differentiating major mental illnesses form disorders related to behavior, life experience, and temperament
• Anxiety, depression, bipolar, OCD, Schizophrenia, Dementia, and other major mental illnesses
• Behavior disorders such as addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, sex, gambling and other addictive behaviors
• Life challenges such as adjustment disorder, PTSD, and other demoralizing life experiences
• Personality traits such as avoidance, suspiciousness, impulsivity, intellectual and other personal vulnerabilities
• Treatment with psychopharmacology, supportive, cognitive-behavioral, and insight oriented individual and family therapy

Private Lecture Series on Mental Helath

Following lectures and interactive group discussions are held throughout the month in offices of Dr. Artin and his associates in Irvine and Santa Ana:

• What is needed for psychiatric diagnosis
• Role of life, chararcter, behavior, and disease
• Mood, creativity, and the impact of treatment
• When temperament becomes disordered
• Differentiating mood and character
• A comparative analysis of individual and society
• Person, people, and the mind
• Emotions as waves of the ocean
• Conflict resolution between individuals and groups

Priority and special fee reduction is given to our patients and their families. To register for any of the upcoming lectures and interactive group discussions, please call: 949-451-1789